Episodes Nearest to May 1, 1867: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. Writing for the South: William Gilmore Simms and Southern Intellectualism
    date May 1, 1867map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags Arts/Leisure, Education

    In 1867, Charles Warren Stoddard sent the well-known author William Gilmore Simms a sample of poetry that he, a hopeful young author, had written. On May 1, 1867, Simms replied, congratulating Stoddard on the quality of his poetry and discussing his desire to help young authors whom he felt merited encouragement. These letters began a correspondence between the young author and his mentor that would...

  2. White Response to African American Mob
    date May 9, 1867map RICHMOND, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    An escalating series of events led to armed soldiers charging at an African American mob of one thousand. Although the evening had started with a small group of African Americans watching a trial of engines between the Richmond and the visiting Wilmington, Delaware Fire Companies, police soon arrested an African American man who allegedly attacked the firemen. A riot followed, with the mob hurling...

  3. Concerns over the building of the Tennessee Rail Road
    date April 9, 1867 to May 1, 1867map KNOX, Tennesseetags Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation

    During April and May, 1867, a number of letters arrived into the Brownlow's Knoxville Whig newspaper. The letters, sent by a number of farmers expressed concerns over the delay of the railroad construction. <br /><br />The farmers worried over two possible delays. The first resulted from the recent state appropriation of 500,000 to the building of the railroad. As a condition for...

  4. Jefferson Davis freed from prison.
    date May 13, 1867map HENRICO, Virginiatags War

    On May 13, 1867, Jefferson Davis walked free from prison on bail from Fort Monroe Virginia, after just three months of legal litigation. His bail cost 10,000. The United States had kept him in prison for two years after the collapse of the Confederacy, when the Union army had captured and imprisoned him on May 10, 1865 for treason. Even at the time of Davis' release people predicted that his...

  5. President of The National Bank of Atlanta investigates Georgia's gold specimens
    date March 13, 1867 to April 16, 1867map BALDWIN, Georgiatags Economy, Urban-Life/Boosterism, War

    During March and April, 1867, John Rice, the President of the National Bank of Atlanta arrived in the Cherokee Gold Belt of Georgia to investigate the quality of recently mined minerals. He declared the beauty and high value of the gold and quartz specimen qualities. Rice's arrival in the Gold Belt reflected the rapidly growing interest in the mining of minerals in Georgia. Many had declared...

  6. The Civil Rights Bill and Fourteenth Amendment defeated in the Kentucky Legislature.
    date January 7, 1867 to October 31, 1867map FRANKLIN, Kentuckytags African-Americans

    Despite the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act in 1866, the Kentucky Legislature rejected both acts on January 7, 1867, by the votes of 62-26 and 24-7. The acts secured the citizenship and Civil Rights to all Americans whether black or white. The infringement of Civil Rights under the pretence of law and custom was made illegal, and the acts legalized the removal of cases...

  7. First Recorded Sit-In.
    date March 27, 1867map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    On March 27, 1867, after the end of the Freedmen's meeting in Charleston, a group of African-Americans decided to test their right to ride on the Charleston Street Cars. The Streetcar Company's rules denied them this right. At 5 o'clock two to five men entered a streetcar on the King Street line, and sat among the white customers. Conductor Rivers endeavoured to explain the rules of...

  8. The Formation of the Republican Party in North Carolina
    date March 27, 1867map WAKE, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    On March 27, 1867, the North Carolina Republican Party officially formed at a meeting in Raleigh. Holden set the tone of the Republican Party. He wrote in the Raleigh Standard, “let our loyal people, and especially the colored people, trust no man who will not promptly say he is a Republican' (Raleigh Standard, April 4, 1867). The party, according to Albert Tourg?e, revealed men of “ignorance,...

  9. Brazil as the New South
    date June 8, 1867map LOUISA, Virginiatags African-Americans, Agriculture, Economy, Government, Politics, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, War

    For southern whites, the end of the Civil War ushered in a period of poverty, dependence, and hate. The Union soldiers had confiscated or destroyed much of the plantation owners' valuable property, and without property or the system of slavery that had sustained the South for so many generations, the agricultural economy plummeted and became extremely vulnerable to carpetbaggers and scalawags....

  10. The Second Reconstruction Act is passed
    date March 23, 1867map Washington City, District of Columbiatags African-Americans

    The Second Reconstruction Act of March 23, 1867 supplemented the First Reconstruction Act. The First Reconstruction Act left the Southern States in confusion to whose role it was to reinforce the legislation. The Second Act answered this problem. It established and clarified that the military commanders held responsibility to register voters and hold elections in their territories. The Second Reconstruction...

  11. The Irish Riot on Saint Patrick’s Day
    date March 17, 1867map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Irish Immigration, St. Patrick's Day

    Four leaf clovers adorned the street corners of New York City, soft bagpipes in the background-accompanied fiddles, and the whiskey flowed forth with a seemingly endless supply. The stereotypes of St. Patrick’s Day are numerous, and all derogatory towards the Irish immigrants who migrated to this land for a better life than the turmoil they were facing due to the Great Famine. These images are...

  12. The First Reconstruction Act is passed
    date March 2, 1867map Washington City, District of Columbiatags African-Americans

    The First Reconstruction Act, also known as the Military Reconstruction Act, passed into law on March 2, 1867 over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. The act applied to all the ex-Confederate states in the South, except Tennessee who had already ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. It split the states into five military districts, each under the control of a Northern General whose responsibility...

  13. Education for Disabled Veterans
    date 1867map NELSON, Virginiatags Education, War

    Concern with morality and charity dominated the thoughts of many devout Christians in the South. W.D. Cabell, a graduate of the University of Virginia and principal of the Norwood High School in Nelson County, Virginia, was just such a man. In his journal he often pondered the effect his own life would have on those around him, and beseeched the Lord for help in doing good works. In 1867, Cabell...

  14. A Dedication to the Manhood of Women in the Civil War
    date 1867map NEW YORK, New Yorktags Arts/Leisure, War, Women

    William Gilmore Simms accredited the women of the South with winning the Civil War. He dedicated War Poetry of the South (published in both 1866 and 1867) to the women who had "shown themselves worthy of any manhood" through their "virtuous effort and womanly endurance." He applauded mothers, sisters, and wives for their displays of courage and endurance even while they sacrificed everything...

  15. Race Riot in Franklin, Tennessee
    date July 6, 1867map FRANKLIN, Tennesseetags The Colored League, Franklin

    In July of 1867, African-Americans began their gradual assimilation into the United States in Tennessee. A large number of black Tennesseans joined The Colored League which advocated for civil rights and strongly supported the Republican Party. In Franklin, Tennessee, the League had a strong presence. In early July, African-American members of this group paraded around the outskirts of town where...

  16. Display of the Confederate Flag in Richmond Sparks Anger in Congress
    date February 17, 1867 to February 18, 1867map RICHMOND, Virginiatags Government, Politics, Race-Relations, Law

    On February 17, 1867 the New York Times reported on an act of reoccurring rebelliousness that happened within the city of Richmond, Virginia.  The incident that sparked all of the emotion was the display of the Confederate Flag during an event within the city.  Members of Congress and other Union loyalists decided that this act of rebelliousness proved that some of the southern states...

  17. Maggie L. Walker born
    date July 15, 1867map HENRICO, Virginiatags African-Americans, Education, Race-Relations, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Born to former slaves on July 15, 1867, shortly after the end of the Civil War, Maggie L. Walker would become one of the most influential black females at the turn of the century. From her roots in poverty in the city of Richmond, Walker became the first woman in the United States, black or white, to charter a bank when she opened St. Luke Penny Saving Bank in her hometown: the City of Richmond....

  18. Futile Attempts for Justice
    date July 15, 1867map JEFFERSON, Mississippitags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Government, Race-Relations

    On the night of July 15, 1867, three African American men arrived in Jefferson County, Mississippi, and asked a local policeman where they could remain for the night. The policeman said he would take them to the local jail where they could sleep, and then release them the next morning. Instead, the three men were detained for six days and made to dig post holes around the jail. After they were...

  19. Freedmen's Marriages
    date July 16, 1867map DE SOTO, Mississippitags African-Americans, Slavery, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    At the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865, two million slaves suddenly found themselves emancipated from the system of bondage that they had known their entire lives. The United States was in a unique situation in which it was not quite sure how to handle the differences between its new society with all freed African Americans, and its old slaveholding one. In order to help the refugees of the...

  20. Congress passes the 3rd Reconstruction Act
    date July 19, 1867map Washington City, District of Columbiatags African-Americans, Race-Relations, War

    Beginning in March of 1866, the period of Reconstruction sought to force change on the rebel states by creating a series of laws designed to control their behaviors. Only in retrospect can it be said that Reconstruction began in 1866, as it was not until March of 1867 that Congress passed the first of the so-called Reconstruction Acts that would truly force change in the South. President Andrew...

  21. Blacks vote for the first time in the South
    date August 1, 1867map DAVIDSON, Tennesseetags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    While the process of Reconstruction continued until 1868 for many of the rebel states, Tennessee was readmitted into the United States in 1866. Thus, Tennessee was the only one of the Confederate states not affected by the highly contentious sections of the Reconstruction Acts, which placed the states under military authority. As a consequence, the state would be one of the first to fully understand...

  22. General Philip Sheridan removes Governor James Webb Throckmorton from office
    date July 30, 1867 to August 8, 1867map AUSTIN, Texastags Race-Relations, War

    According to the Reconstruction Acts, the military could remove and appoint a state's government figures in order to further Reconstruction. Under this system, the general in charge of the region in which the state was located would be responsible for making these decisions. Because President Andrew Johnson did not agree with many clauses in the Acts of Reconstruction, this particular section...

  23. Trial ends in hung jury in the case of John Surratt, Jr.
    date August 10, 1867map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Crime/Violence, War

    Perhaps one of the most publicized events of the summer of 1867 was the trial of John Harrison Surratt, Jr. and its impending verdict. When the verdict was announced as a “hung jury' on August 10,1867 after more than two months of arguments had been presented, the responses from the public ranged from resentment to relief. Indeed, much information needed to be digested to make a decision...

  24. Yellow fever sweeps through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
    date July, 1867 to September, 1867map ORLEANS, Louisianatags Health/Death

    During the summer of 1867, a yellow fever epidemic infected the Gulf Coast of the United States, particularly in areas of Louisiana and Texas, leading to death of thousands. In Louisiana, New Orleans suffered greatly while Galveston, San Antonio, and Houston were three of the hardest hit cities in Texas. In both states, epidemics of yellow fever had been occurring for years. Indeed, from 1839...

  25. Arkansas Black Man's Triumphant Speech
    date March, 1867 to January, 1868map PHILLIPS, Arkansastags African-Americans, Economy, Education, Government, Law, Politics, Race-Relations, Slavery, War

    In January 1868, black and white men came together for the first time in a legislative body in Arkansas to discuss the state's re-entry into the Union.The participating delegates consisted of 47 Arkansas whites, 17 outside whites, and eight African Americans.According to Richard L. Hume, the Arkansas convention was unique, however, because it contained extensive debates about the role of race.The...